The Institute for Materials Research (IMR) invites you to the 2010 IMRG Spring Symposia, Tuesday, May 18 and Friday, May 21. This inaugural event showcases the cutting-edge work of select interdisciplinary research teams from OSU’s materials community. The IMRG Spring Symposia will highlight the wide range of materials-allied research taking place on campus, from structural materials to biomedical applications. The …
OSU Named Center of Excellence in Enabling Technologies: Advanced Materials and Sensors
This morning Ohio Governor Ted Strickland and Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut announced Ohio’s five Centers of Excellence in Enabling Technologies: Advanced Materials and Sensors. We are proud to report that The Ohio State University has been named one of the five Centers, specifically a Center of Excellence in Materials, Manufacturing Technologies, and Nanotechnology. This year-long effort was …
IMRG Spring Symposia – May 18 and 21
2010 IMRG Spring Symposia Tuesday, May 18th 12:00 PM – 4:30 PM; E100 Scott Lab and Friday May, 21st 8:00 AM – 12:30 PM; Smith Seminar Room in the Physics Research Building All currently-funded Interdisciplinary Materials Research Grants (IMRG) research teams will particpate in this public forum to share research funded through IMR’s Interdisciplinary Materials Research Grants program through formal presentations. These symposia …
OSU Team Wins NSF MRI Competition
A team of OSU researchers has won an NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) award for the acquisition of a hybrid diamond/nitride synthesis cluster tool for studies of wide bandgap semiconductors. The team of researchers spans two colleges and three departments including Physics (Prof. Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, CME, PI on the proposal*; Prof. Fengyuan Yang, CME; Prof. Harris Kagan, HEPX), Electrical and …
OSU Wins NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) Award, Establishes the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM)
Ohio State’s first NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM), has been officially awarded effective September 1, 2008! This award is a major achievement for Ohio State’s materials community since the presence of a MRSEC on campus places OSU in a select group of universities generally acknowledged across the U.S. as the leading …
Ohio State Wins Ohio Research Scholars Program Award in Technology
The Ohio Department of Development has announced that The Ohio State University will receive an Ohio Research Scholars Program award totaling over $18 million to fund its proposal, Technology-Enabling and Emergent Materials. The award funds two endowed Ohio Research Scholars positions for The Ohio State University, a Nanoscale Materials Microscopist and a Molecular Chemist; one Ohio Research Scholar at University …
Institute for Materials Research presents Dr. Robert Chau as the inaugural speaker for the IMR 2007-2008 Colloquia Series
Dr. Robert Chau is an internationally known and distinguished researcher at Intel Corporation, where he is the Director of Transistor Research and Nanotechnology and an Intel Senior Fellow. He will give a lecture entititled “Research and Advancement in Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronics in the Semiconductor Industry” to be held on Friday August 31, 2007 from 3:00 to 4:00pm in Scott Laboratory …
Internal Procedure for MRSEC Proposal Announced
On April 17, 2007, Associate Vice President for Research Douglas Kniss announced the internal procedure for proposal submissions to the National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Education (MRSEC) initiative. Due to the highly competitive nature of the MRSEC competition, a process was created to maximize the expertise and strengths of OSU researchers and faculty. The Institute for Materials Research …
Ohio State Awarded Third Frontier Funding for Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization
On December 15, 2006 the Ohio Third Frontier program announced the award for the new Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization (PVIC). This new center will include two major hubs of photovoltaic (solar cell) research, development, and commercialization activities located at the University of Toledo and The Ohio State University. PVIC activities will involve the efforts of over twenty …